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The Indian Ocean tsunami in 2004 caused widespread damage to Southern Thailand. The Moklen, an ethnic minority group of Sea Gypsies living in the area...
Homes, health infrastructure, and other essential services have been decimated in areas hit by Super Typhoon Haiyan, leaving millions of survivors vul...
Super Typhoon Haiyan entered the Philippine Area of Responsibility (PAR) on 7 November 2013, causing tremendous damage to infrastructure and loss of l...
The Indian Ocean tsunami of 2004 was a disaster of unparalleled proportions, devastating the lives and livelihoods of millions of people across 14 cou...

Continental-Scale Partitioning of Fire Emissions During the 1997 to 2001 El Niño/La Niña Period

van der Werf, G. R.Randerson, J. T.Collatz, G. J.Giglio, L.Kasibhatla, P. S.
During the 1997 to 1998 El Niño, drought conditions triggered widespread increases in fire activity, releasing CH4 and CO2 to the atmosphere. We eval...
This paper focuses on the adaptation strategies of developing countries and the possible adaptation options available for Southeast Asia. Adaptation r...
Southeast Asia is one of the world’s fastest growing regions in terms of population and urban growth. Scientific assessment indicates that the coast...
The Philippines is a disaster-prone country,1 ranked as the second highest country worldwide at risk of natural disasters. 2 On 8 November 2013, Typho...
When international medical response teams landed in the Philippines after Typhoon Haiyan, they had to act as professional humanitarian responders. Med...
The cyclone Nargis devastated the Ayeyarwady delta area of Myanmar on May 2, 2008. Although the government agencies, local and international NGOs and ...
Transnational and non-state threats including international organized crime, terrorism, illicit trafficking (in drugs, wildlife, humans, arms, etc.), ...
Three weeks after the deadly Bohol earthquake of magnitude Mw 7.2, which claimed at least 222 victims; another disaster struck the Philippines. This t...
Jakarta has experienced many floods in the past, and those floods resulted in not only human casualties but also economic damages. In this paper a rai...
Construction of residential buildings on hill-site in Malaysia has increased tremendously for the last 15 years due to depleting flat land and other i...
On 26 December 2004, two extremely rare events occurred close to the southwestern shores of northern Indonesia. The first was a massive earthquake mea...

Ending the drought: New strategies for improving the flow of affordable, effective antivenoms in Asia and Africa

Williams, D. J.Gutierrez, J.M.Calevete, J. J.Wuster, W.Ratanabanangkoon, K.Paiva, O.Brown, N. I.Casewell, N. R.Harrison, R. A.Rowley, P. D.O'Shea, M.Jensen, S. D.Winkel, K. D.Warrell, D. A.
The development of snake antivenoms more than a century ago should have heralded effective treatment of the scourge of snakebite envenoming in impover...
Water deficits result in large yield reductions on the one-half of the world's rice land that is rainfed. The most severe water deficits tend to occur...
Sumatra-Andaman tsunami was categorized as the third worst tsunami by the United State Geology Survey (USGS). The tsunami was triggered at 00:58:53 UT...
Twenty papers on the study of tsunamis and respective tsunamigenic earthquakes are included in Volume II of the PAGEOPH topical issue ‘‘Tsunami Sc...
We examined the impact of both seasonal and year-to-year variations in precipitation on simulated soil moisture dynamics at a tropical rain forest (TR...